We were excited, during today’s announcement about the growth of Internet Essentials, to see that the Seattle area ranked 9th in the nation among metropolitan areas for number of customers. Washington State ranked 8th among states within the Comcast footprint. That’s a great showing!
More than 8,000 families are online in Washington State thanks to Internet Essentials.
This is where we can thank the amazing partners who have helped us spread the word. It’s tough to just pick a few, because we have nearly 500 school districts and nonprofit groups in Washington who’ve helped spread the word (and that’s just the ones we know about because they ordered literature for distribution to families)
Some of the school districts that have shared the word on behalf of their students who want to be online:
- Aberdeen School District
- Bethel School District
- Clover Park School District
- Federal Way School District
- Franklin Pierce School District
- Highline School District
- Kent School District
- Shoreline School District
- Tacoma Public Schools
The challenge in listing nonprofit partners who’ve helped to get the word out is that there are hundreds. Here are just some of the partners we thank for helping to get out the word:
- Asian Counseling Referral Service
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellevue
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Bellingham
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Spokane County
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Thurston County
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Washington State
- Economic Alliance of Snohomish County
- Edmonds Public Schools Foundation
- El Centro de la Raza
- Pierce County Library System
- Tacoma Public Library
- Tet in Seattle
- United Way of King County
- Workforce Development Council of Snohomish County
- YMCA of Greater Seattle